What is an Opportunity Enthusiast to Do
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21633618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Lens (0000-0002-4693-3370, Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Los Angeles, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 797-801 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Housing Policy Debate (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1051-1482 • E-ISSN: 2152-050X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10511482.2023.2173982 |
| OpenAlex | W4320493658 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
David Imbroscio offers a useful pushback against groupthink among scholars studying neighborhood opportunity, even if I quibble with the details. Imbroscio sometimes conflates problem definition with solution feasibility, and ultimately points to some solutions to economic inequality that may be even less feasible than those offered by the opportunity enthusiasts. Further, the broader problems of economic inequality are well known to housing scholars, but often lie outside their scope and expertise. Imbroscio does push the field to put community wealth building institutions and options more central to housing and neighborhood scholarship and policy, which bridges macroeconomic issues with neighborhood inequality ones
Economic growth · Economics · Inequality · Law and economics · Political science · Positive economics · Public economics · Scholarship · Sociology · Computer Science · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Public Administration · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |